Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels. This makes it necessary to search for new, renewable processes. Using ...

Despite their hard, rigid structure, teeth are not classified as bones. They are distinct entities primarily composed of ...

Industrial food processing is often the target of criticism - unjust criticism, says Patrick Rühs, as many processing steps actually make foods ...

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less of it than we have the surface of the moon.

A Treatise on Structure and Function. Edited by I. C. Gunsalus and Roger Y. Stanier. Vol. 1: Structure. Pp. xiv + 513. (New York: Academic Press, Inc.; London ...

Could scientists find life in the clouds of exoplanet atmospheres? This is what a manuscripton the arXiv preprint server ...

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Escherichia coli (E. coli), a type of bacteria commonly found in the human gut, could spread as quickly as swine flu, new ...